Alexandra Hay (July 24, 1947 – October 11, 1993) was an American actress of the 1960s and 1970s best known for her roles in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Skidoo, and Model Shop.
Mainstream career
On October 29, 1966, the Los Angeles Times reported "Columbia's New Talent Program has developed another young actress, Alexandra Hay, who has been signed to a long-term exclusive contract by the studio."[1]
Hay played the role of Jean Harlow in Michael McClure's controversial play The Beard. She was arrested on 14 nights for lewd conduct and later acquitted by the California Supreme Court on the basis that the First Amendment places strict limitations on the application of criminal laws to live theatrical performances.[4][5]
Later career
Hay was chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to be Miss Golden Globe for the 1968 Golden Globe Awards ceremony,[6] which was held at the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove on February 12, 1968.[7]
Hay was photographed by Mario Casilli for a February 1974 Playboy magazine pictorial entitled "Alexandra the Great".[11]
Death
Hay died on October 11, 1993, at age 46 of arteriosclerotic heart disease. She was cremated by The Alpha Society and her ashes were scattered at sea off Marina del Rey, California on October 19, 1993.[12]
Alexandra Hay's first leading role. This is a completed and self-contained 30-minute short film that Robert Aldrich made to both showcase Hay's talent and to raise money for a feature-length version of the story. A feature version was never made. The short film - while preserved - is presently unreleased
Leading role. Also known as: Fun and Games (original title) and Bed Games
The Forests Are Nearly All Gone Now
June Michels
Leading role. During post-production, the film was shelved by writer/director Clyde Ware for personal reasons. Nearly 20 years later, Ware incorporated roughly half of the Forests footage into his film Another Time, Another Place (1989)
Premiered at the 1973 Atlanta International Film Festival. This is an anthology film composed of five stories, with Hay being the female lead of her segment
Filmed in 1971. Original title: How Come Nobody's on Our Side?
1975
That Girl from Boston
Willa Starch
Alexandra Hay's final leading role. This film, a comedy based on a popular novel by Robert H. Rimmer, was shelved either during or after post-production. It is presently considered to be a lost film
Final role. A pivotal scene of Hay's was deleted and the Dead on Arrival re-release cut of the film deleted another scene
1989
Another Time, Another Place
June Michels
A 1989 film that repurposes roughly 50% of Alexandra Hay's performance from the shelved 1971 feature film The Forests Are Nearly All Gone Now. Though completed, Another Time, Another Place ran into distribution problems and was only released as an extremely limited VHS in 1992
